Wedding planning guides.
Notes on planning a wedding away from home, the paperwork, the pacing, the weather of a particular week in May. Written by Walt and Perrie, revised when the paperwork or the prices move.
- Pieces in circulation
- 61
- Destinations covered
- 13
- Last pressing
- Irish Castle Wedding Guide: Venues
How to get married in Mallorca.
A Mallorca wedding for 70 guests runs €45,000 to €85,000 all in, with finca and coastal-villa venues at the heart of it.
- Cost, 70 guests
- €45 – 85k
- Best months
- May · June · September
- Reading
- 13 min read
- Revised
- 20 Apr 2026
Where to marry abroad, and why there.
Each destination gets a proper dossier, venues, cost, weather, paperwork, and the honest reasons it might not suit you.
How to get married in Mallorca.
A Mallorca wedding for 70 guests runs €45,000 to €85,000 all in, with finca and coastal-villa venues at the heart of it.
How to get married in the Algarve.
You do not have to live in Portugal to marry there. Each of you needs a birth certificate issued within the last six months, proof that you are free to marry, and Portuguese…
How to get married on the Amalfi Coast.
An Amalfi Coast wedding for 70 guests runs €80,000 to €150,000 all in, with Ravello villas and Positano cliffside hotels at the heart of it.
How to get married in Tuscany.
A Tuscany wedding for 70 guests runs €55,000 to €110,000 including VAT. Private Chianti villas, Val d'Orcia agriturismi, and restored borghi make up the venue backbone.
How to get married on Lake Como.
A Lake Como wedding for 70 guests runs €90,000 to €170,000 including VAT. Historic lakefront villas (Balbiano, Balbianello, Pizzo) are the venue backbone; most weddings split…
How to get married in Santorini.
A Santorini wedding for 70 guests runs €55,000 to €100,000 including VAT. Caldera-rim hotels (Canaves Oia, Mystique, Andronis) and cliffside villas are the venue backbone.
How to get married in Provence.
A Provence wedding for 70 guests runs €60,000 to €120,000 including VAT. Restored Luberon mas and Alpilles bastides are the venue backbone.
How to get married in Tulum.
A Tulum wedding for 70 guests runs $55,000 to $120,000 USD including IVA. Full buyouts of beachfront boutique hotels (Nomade, Sanará, Be Tulum, Habitas) are the venue backbone.
How to get married in Mykonos.
A Mykonos wedding for 70 guests runs €60,000 to €120,000 including VAT. Full hotel buyouts (Bill & Coo, Cavo Tagoo, Kenshō) and beach-club takeovers (Scorpios, Nammos,…
How to get married in Cabo San Lucas.
A Cabo San Lucas wedding for 70 guests runs $65,000 to $140,000 USD including IVA. Luxury resort buyouts along the Tourist Corridor (One&Only Palmilla, Las Ventanas,…
Getting married in the Maldives as a foreigner.
A Maldives wedding for 50 guests runs $200,000 to $400,000 USD, the highest per-person cost of any mainstream destination.
How to get married in Bali.
A Bali wedding for 70 guests runs $50,000 to $130,000 USD including PPN. Private villa compounds, Uluwatu cliff chapels, and resort buyouts are the venue backbone.
The 15 best destination wedding locations for 2026.
Fifteen destinations we book regularly, sorted by region and tier. The cheapest premium European option is the Algarve (€30–60k for 70 guests, EWR direct summer).
The runway, in order.
What to do, when, and what it will cost. The pieces we reach for most often in the first thirty minutes of a planning call.
The paperwork, in plain English.
Civil ceremonies abroad are a lead-time problem, not a difficult one. We explain the process country by country.
The manner of the thing.
Destination weddings ask more of guests than a weekend in the next town. These are the pieces we hand to couples who want to ask it well.
For the guests, pass along.
Written to be forwarded to your invitees, practical, warm, and short enough to read at the gate.
Dispatches from the weekend.
First-person accounts from real wedding weekends, written by the people who were there, not by us.
Read these first, if you’re new.
A starter’s triptych, the three pieces that answer most of the questions we hear in the first planning call.
How to choose a destination wedding location.
Destination wedding budget breakdown, line by line.
Destination wedding etiquette for couples and guests.
Messages
from the Aisle.
A short note when a destination goes live, prices shift, or the paperwork changes. We don’t write it unless we’ve something to say.
Or ask a question directly.
Write to Aisle. We’ll point you to the right guide, the right venue, and sometimes away from the island you had in mind.
How these guides are made.
The journal is written by Walter Lafky and Perrie Lundstrom. Legal and process claims are checked against primary government sources, listed at the foot of every guide. Costs are modelled from Aisle’s listing data and published supplier rates, and are labelled as estimates rather than quotes. Every guide carries a review date and is revised when the paperwork or the pricing moves.
- Pieces published
- 61
- Review cadence
- Twice yearly, per piece
- Next scheduled revision
- Irish Castle Wedding Guide: Venues · Twice yearly, per piece
- Verified against
- Primary government sources
- Corrections
- hello@aisle.wedding
- Publisher
- Aisle